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The Red Zone: Inside Detroit's deadly gang wars
Chapter 1: The Seven Mile Bloods' turf is part pharmacy, part killing field and part launching pad for a bloody gang war
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Hit lists started popping up on Instagram between the Hustle Boys (42) and Seven Mile Bloods (55 Hardwork) gangs after a chance encounter in summer 2014 between rival gang members at a state parole office on Detroit’s west side.
On July 14, 2014, 23-year-old twins Michael and Martaze Davis arrived at the Lawton Parole Office for a morning meeting with a parole agent. The twins have identical convictions for armed robbery.
The Davis brothers rap together under the name 42 Twinz and have toured extensively while posting rap videos on YouTube.
The twins also belong to the Seven Mile Bloods’ rival gang, the Hustle Boys, prosecutors say.
Around 11 a.m., the twins were finished with their parole meetings. Before they left, they crossed paths with a rival, accused Seven Mile Bloods leader Billy Arnold, prosecutors say.
The Hustle Boys traveled for about four miles before approaching the intersection of Grand River Avenue and Oakman Boulevard on Detroit’s west side.
The Hustle Boys were shadowed by three cars filled with Seven Mile Bloods members.
Near Grand River and Oakman, a white Chrysler Sebring filled with Seven Mile Bloods accelerated and pulled alongside the Hustle Boys’ car.
Arnold and Bailey leaned out of the Seven Mile Bloods’ car and opened fire, prosecutors allege.
Michael Davis was shot in the chest.
More bullets struck Page in the left eye and upper body.
Page’s friends flagged down social worker Silhouette O’Neal, who was headed back to work after lunch.
They asked O’Neal for a ride to the hospital.
O’Neal was afraid and initially wouldn’t look at Page.
When she finally looked, O’Neal screamed.
“All I saw was an eyeball out of the socket,” she testified.
Page was alive, barely.
He lingered in a coma for several weeks before dying. Page was 22.
After Page was killed, Billy Arnold talked about the shooting with Derrick Kennedy, according to testimony. Kennedy pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and testified about the conversation.
“He said he cooked ’em,” Kennedy testified. “He shot ‘em.”
Page’s killing in July 2014 forged a new alliance on the east side of Detroit.
The Hustle Boys, 6 Mile Chedda Grove, Maxout 220 gangs and others banded together to battle the historically stronger Seven Mile Bloods, prosecutors say.
After Page died, photos of 10 Seven Mile Bloods members were posted on Instagram. @all_new_victims55.
A hit list, prosecutors say.
Several photos — including pictures of accused Seven Mile Bloods leaders Corey Bailey and Billy Arnold — were posted on Instagram by someone using the name “All Head Shots.”
Months passed and Seven Mile Bloods members and associates got shot. Four died.
The Seven Mile Bloods retaliated by posting photos of 62 rivals on the gang’s Instagram page, “000_big_blood,” according to the government.
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Death by Instagram: Go inside the gang wars of Detroit's Red Zone
The inside story of Detroit’s gang wars, a battle prosecutors say was fueled by Instagram hit lists and the Seven Mile Bloods, the social-media savvy gang that had a death grip on both the opioid drug trade and one of the deadliest parts of America’s most violent big city.
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Tee & Sada hanging after Sada signed to Tee’s Aunt
42 Twin saying to Tee it’s gone be consequences for that
42 Cheez disses Sada Baby
47 Mell disses 42 Twin for Tee and gets killed
42 Cheez & 42 Dugg dissing Sada Baby at Tee Grizzley birthday concert
Sada going on stage right after
Sada dissing Tee and saying he banned from the D
Sada Baby - Bloxk Party (Tribute to Block, killed by 42 gang)
42 Dugg - RIP Neff (Tribute to Neff, killed by 55 Hardwork gang)
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